Re: How to reclaim space in news.dat?

Tom D. Baccanti (tdb@delta1.deltanet.com)
Fri, 27 Dec 1996 17:43:05 +0800

Wasn't that what you wanted to accomplish? To reduce the size
of the news dat file. Thats what it did.

Direct from the Psychic Hotline jbang@image.dk (Jens Bang) predicts:
>In article <1nkwyor+BUxK092yn@delta1.deltanet.com>,
>tdb@delta1.deltanet.com (Tom D. Baccanti) wrote:
>>I simply delete the news.dat and run rebuild -o and that works
>>well for me.
>
>I tried that. But first I backed up my 95 MB news.dat, and that was good,
>because after doing the rebuild -o I had a 20 _bytes_ news.dat! What did I
>do wrong?
>
>Right now I'm trying to recover from having _all_ my messages in the backed
>up file marked as unread after a rebuild. That's quite a read! :-)
>
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